Introduction to Buddhism

Syllabus

Important Notices: 

1. Requirement for your book report 1

2. Four Page Essay 1

3. Study Guide for your First Exam 

4. Your presentation topics; Your presentation Date; Presentation Links

5. Four Page Essay 2

6.Your 10 Page Final Paper

7. Requirement for your book report 2

8. Zen Party  

 

Texts:

1.      Rahula, Walpola Sri, What the Buddha Taught, Grove Press, Inc., New York

2.      Malhotra, Ashok Kumar, Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita, NJ: Prentic Hall, 1998

3. Watts, Alan, The Way of Zen, Vintage Books, New York

3. Paul Reps and Nyoogen Senzaki,Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, Shambhala, Boston & London

4.  Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World, Doubleday Religion, 2009

Handouts from original texts: The Dhammapada,,Confucianism,,Daoism

 

 

Contents

Introduction Introduction to Buddhism

 

Handout

Meet Buddha

Chapter One

 

 

 

 

Buddhism in India

The historical background-Vedic

Buddha's story

Buddhist World View and Buddhist Hell

The Buddhist Attitude of mind

Four Noble Truths I-II

Four Noble Truths III-IV

No-Soul and No-Self

Meditation

Theravada and Mahayana

Tibetan Buddhism

 

 

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My trip to Tibet

About Tibet

Tibet The Story O...

Chapter Two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buddhism in China

Introduction

Buddhism in China Timeline (early)

Chinese Culture and World Views

Confucianism

Daoism

Middle Term Exam on Oct. 8 (Monday)

Buddhism and Chinese Tradition (From Eastern Chin-Sui Dynasty)

Maturity and Acceptance (From Tong-Song Dynasty)

Chan Buddhism

Take Home Quiz: A Chan/Zen Master at Creighton

 

 

 

Outline 0

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Chinese Residency;

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Outline 3 (Discussion)

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Study Guide for your First Exam

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Example

 

Chapter Three

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buddhism in Japan

Zen Literatures and Arts

Zen Principles and Practice

The understanding of Beauty

"Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing"

Zen Practice:

                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outline 1

Zen Practice:1.Spring:

http://winstream.creighton.edu/jyu02084/movies/Spring1.wmv

2.Have a Good Laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

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Zen Paintings

http://winstream.creighton.edu/jyu02084/photostory/Crane1.wmv

 

The Zen Mind - An Introduction

-Zen Poem Reading: 1.Luming and 2. Luye

Photostory by Students

-Students' Zen Poems    

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Zen Garden

(Guikaky Ji-Sands)

(Nijo-Racks)

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/zen/index.shtml?overview

Study guide for the Final